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Seven stops of Jerusalimka

The route consists of seven thematic stops, each of which reveals a separate facet of history: literary, musical, social, personal.

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Market square

A map of Vinnytsia from 1796 shows wooden stalls specially built for trade on the market square of the New Town (on the right bank of the Southern Bug River), surrounded by “Jewish

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Entrance to Jerusalem

Yerusalymka is the name given to a district of compact Jewish settlement in Vinnytsia, which began to take shape at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries.

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Main Synagogue

A synagogue for the Jewish community is a sacred place where Jews gather for communal prayer, the study of religious texts, and discussions of important community matt

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Talmud Torah

A Talmud Torah was the name given to an educational institution for boys from poor Jewish families.

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Courtyards

An important feature of Vinnytsia’s Yerusalymka was the intricate network of its streets and courtyards—a unique mosaic of the cultural landscape of Podolian Jews.

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Slope to the Boh River

The Southern Buh River (known in ancient times as the Boh) washed Yerusalymka along the northeastern side of Vinnytsia’s central riverbank.

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Yakushinets Gate

In the work of the prominent Ukrainian historian Valentyn Otamanovskyi, Vinnytsia in the 14th–17th Centuries, a map of the old city shows a marking labeled “Yakushynets Gate.” These were a

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